FILM

Herb & Dorothy 50×50 (2013; 86 min.), the sequel to Herb & Dorothy (2008), picks up where the first film left off, chronicling the adventures of these dedicated collectors as they distribute their private art collection to every state in the union through a unique gift program.

Films in this program complement The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty ...more

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Park Row

Park Row counts among Fuller’s least known yet most personal films, an affectionate and vivid tribute to the pioneering days of American journalism that is colored by his own clear nostalgia for his youthful experience...

3 Women

One of Altman’s most hallucinatory creations was actually conceived from a dream he had of Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in the desert, starring in a film about “personality-theft.” Every frame tinged by...

Jesse Aron Green: Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik

Jesse Aron Green’s celebrated multi-component installation Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik (Medicalized Indoor Gymnastics) (2008) comprises an 80-minute projected video and associated sculptural and photographic works and drawings, all of which were recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museums. The installation takes as its point of...

Cookie’s Fortune

Despite subject matter that includes murder, suicide and racism, Cookie’s Fortune is one of Altman’s gentlest works, an exemplar of the mellowing in his last films. Although it does not feature a vast...

The James Dean Story

Directed by Robert Altman and George W. George
US 1957, 35mm, b/w, 83 min

Opening with a nearly playful animated title sequence and point-of-view reenactment of Dean’s fatal crash, Robert Altman’s second feature and only full-length documentary hints at the director’s antagonistic yet fascinated...

China Gate

A fascinating crystallization of Fuller's major themes of war, flawed heroes, indomitable women and ugly Americans, China Gate is a bold CinemaScope epic that is possibly the first American film about the...

Big Picture Art House Summer Workshops

Big Picture photo and movie making workshops for 6th-10th graders are now open. Big Picture offers a "boutique" learning experience for no more than 7 students per class. It is part art school/part camp. Our home base is the Big Picture teaching space near the Franklin Park Zoo, where we conduct lessons, review work...

Scandal Sheet

Director Phil Karlson hit an important stride in the 1950s with a series of tough, low-budget noir thrillers that cast an unpitying eye on the tawdry, violent, lonely lives of hard-bitten petty crooks and...

Shark!

Although Fuller ambitiously intended to direct his story of a mercenary gunrunner turned treasure hunter as a tribute to Greed, the production itself sadly became a dark cautionary tale, as dogged and seemingly...

Verboten!

Verboten! marks a crucial turning point in Fuller's cinema by focusing at last, and in an unusual way, upon the war in which he had actually played a role, WWII. Fuller chose a radically different kind of film from...

Gosford Park

A consensus choice for one of Altman’s greatest artistic successes since his Seventies golden age, Gosford Park functions at least superficially as the director’s Rules of the Game,with one character’s...

Big Screen Classics: THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Our annual Big Lebowski Bowling Party has become one of our biggest Summer events! Not only do you get to see this fantastic film on the big screen, but we throw in plenty of pre-show festivities to really tie things together. There will be Lebowski trivia, a costume contest and of course bowling! We've collected a ton of Dude-themed prizes to...

Though Neve Campbell’s character Ry is the central protagonist, she frequently dissolves into the undulating masses of the Joffrey Ballet dance company as one of many dancers, whose lives each revolve...

The Steel Helmet

A surprise critical and commercial hit that won Fuller a directorial contract with 20th Century Fox, Fuller's first war film was also the first American feature to depict the Korean War, released while the...

Fuller’s dream of making an epic autobiographical film closely based on his own experiences as member of the legendary 1st Infantry Division began in the late 1950s when he first developed the project...

A Fuller Life

In heartfelt tribute to her father, Samantha Fuller gathered a select group of actors and directors who either worked with Sam Fuller or count among his most ardent fans, inviting each to read passages from his autobiographical writings....

Basements

Altman and Harold Pinter became acquaintances after Pinter expressed his admiration for Secret Honor. In choosing to direct two early Pinter one-acts, The Dumb Waiter and The Room, the filmmaker was no doubt...

Free Friday Flicks

Free Friday Flicks is a summertime tradition in Boston, attracting thousands of movie-goers to enjoy family-oriented feature length movies under the stars all summer long at DCR’s Hatch Shell in Boston! Bring a blanket or lawn chair, pack a picnic, and watch a movie with family and friends on Friday night for free! Movies begin at sundown,...

Free Friday Flicks is a summertime tradition in Boston, attracting thousands of movie-goers to enjoy family-oriented feature length movies under the stars all summer long at DCR’s Hatch Shell in...more

National Theatre Live: Everyman

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high, but when Death comes calling he is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defense. Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death...

Big Screen Classics: JAWS

When a leviathan of a Great White begins making snacks out of the good people of Amity Island, it's up to police Chief Brody, the grizzled fisherman Quint, and Richard Dreyfuss to embark on one of the greatest fish stories ever told.

When a leviathan of a Great White begins making snacks out of the good people of Amity Island, it's up to police Chief Brody, the grizzled fisherman Quint, and Richard Dreyfuss to embark on one of...more

The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Merchant of Venice

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all—as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made. When the gold is flowing all is well, but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father and...

Cinema Jukebox: The School of Rock

Jack Black stars as a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur, in this film from Richard Linklater.

Kicked out of his band and desperate for work, he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers. Joan Cusack portrays the principal of the private school...

NT Live: The Beaux' Stratagem

The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money.

National Theatre Live: Skylight

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves...

Artist Talk: An Evening with Shahzia Sikander

Join us for a keynote presentation wtih artist Shahzia Sikander on October 15 at 6:00 pm in Alumnae Lounge (in the Aidekman Arts Center). This presentation is in conjunction with Shahzia's exhibition "Parallax" on view at the Tufts University Art Gallery September 10 - December 6, 2015

Globe on Screen: The Comedy of Errors

Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus) and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other, throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other...

Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus) and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other, throw them into a city with a...more